KHARTOUM — Violent clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have intensified across the capital Khartoum in its three cities.
Clashes continued fiercely yesterday around the perimeter of the army’s general headquarters, causing clouds of smoke to spread over large parts of the capital.
Since the early hours of yesterday morning, residents of the neighborhoods east of the command (Berri and the extension of Nasser) heard the sound of violent clashes, as the RSF’s focused their attacks on three axes, eastern, southern and western Arab market, with intensive shelling with heavy weapons on the headquarters and advanced army bases in the vicinity of the place.
The RSF later posted several videos on social media in which it said it was about to invade the last stronghold of the army in the General Command, but the Sudanese Armed Forces denied this on Monday in a statement saying it had defeated the attack: “The rebel militia tried to attack the General Command, where our forces clashed with them and forced them to retreat after inflicting heavy losses in personnel and equipment.”
This is the third consecutive attack in which Hemedti’s forces seek to advance towards the General Command, which in the early days of the war witnessed fierce battles, where the head of the Sovereignty Council and army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was present, before leaving for Omdurman and then Port Sudan about a month ago.
In its statement, the army accused the continuation of attacks by the Rapid Support Forces against civilians, and said, “The rebel militia deliberately cut off water and electricity in the neighborhoods of Mohandessin, Um Bada and the southern countryside of Omdurman, to force them to displace their homes in preparation for looting, seizing or using them for military purposes.”
Since mid-April, Sudan has been witnessing fierce battles between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as “Hemedti”, in light of disagreements over issues of integration and military reform and accusing each other of trying to steal power through weapons.
